Título de la Revista: COMPETITION POLICY NEWSLETTER
Año........................:2007
Número..................:1
Volumen................: 0
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Contents
1 Commission’s enforcement record in 2006 by Philip LOWE
Articles
3 The new community framework for state aid for research and development and innovation by Thibaut KLEINER and
Renate REPPLINGER-HACH
7 Commission adopts revised Leniency Notice to reward companies that report hard-core cartels by Sari SUURNÄKKI
and María Luisa TIERNO CENTELLA
16 Commission launches public consultation on draft Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines by Giuseppe CONTE, Kay
PARPLIES and Vincent VEROUDEN
20 Milestones in maritime transport: EU ends exceptions by Fabrizia BENINI and Carsten BERMIG
Opinions and comments
23 Effective unbundling of energy transmission networks: lessons from the Energy Sector Inquiry by Philip LOWE,
Ingrida PUCINSKAITE, William WEBSTER and Patrick LINDBERG
35 ECN Model Leniency Programme — a first step towards a harmonised leniency policy in the EU by Céline GAUER
and Maria JASPERS
39 Competition in Pharmaceuticals: the challenges ahead post AstraZeneca by Nadia DE SOUZA
44 State aid for films — a policy in motion? by Jérôme BROCHE, Obhi CHATTERJEE, Irina ORSSICH and Nóra TOSICS
49 Solving problems at the sources: why telecommunications regulation should focus on wholesale, not on retail,
markets by Iratxe GURPEGUI and Przemyslaw KORDASIEWICZ
Antitrust
55 The Energy Sector Inquiry: conclusions and way forward by Eleonora WÄKTARE, Kristóf KOVÁCS and Alexander GEE
60 Sector Inquiry Identifies Widespread Competition Barriers in Retail Banking by Elena CAPRIOLI, Elke GRAEPER, Agata
MALCZEWSKA, Tanya PANOVA, Jean ALLIX, Andras JANECSKO, Paul MCGHEE, Lukas REPA and Antonio Carlos TEIXEIRA
62 Sector Inquiry into Business Insurance — Commission seeks comments on Interim Report by Concetta CULTRERA,
Christoph EMSBACH, Mourad HADDAD and Antonio Carlos TEIXEIRA
Cartels
65 Commission fines copper fittings producers € 314.7 million for price fixing cartel by Glykeria DEMATAKI and
Rainer WESSELY
68 Commission fines producers and traders of synthetic rubber € 519 million for price fixing and market sharing cartel
by Massimo DE LUCA and Bjarke LIST
71 Commission fines fourteen undertakings a total of € 266 million for participating in a cartel for road pavement
bitumen in the Netherlands by Jan NUIJTEN and Bertus VAN BARLINGEN
74 Commission re-adopts cartel decisions in the steel sector by Téa Katarina BROMS and Susanne LAGEARD
Merger control
77 Mergers — Main developments between 1 September and 31 December 2006 by Mary LOUGHRAN and
John GATTI
83 Gaz de France/Suez: Keeping energy markets in Belgium and France open and contestable through far-reaching
remedies by Kirsten BACHOUR, Giuseppe CONTE, Peter EBERL, Clémentine MARTINI, Alessandro PAOLICCHI, Philippe
REDONDO, Augustijn VAN HAASTEREN, Geert WILS
92 Empirical estimation of a discrete choice model for filler calcium carbonates in the paper industry by Benoît DURAND
and Enrico PESARESI
State aid
101 ECJ Judgement of 5 October 2006 Commission v. France: A major step forward for the recovery policy
by Bernadette WILLEMOT and Anne FORT
104 Recent training aid cases in the car industry by Andrés GARCIA BERMUDEZ and Christophe GALAND
109 Regional investment aid to the shipbuilding industry: How to deal with capacity increases? — Experience with the
Volkswerft Stralsund and Rolandwerft cases by Sabine CROME and Charlotte DUPUIS
114 State aid to an electronics cluster in Poland: Assessing regional investment projects in the context of spatial
agglomeration by Agnieszka DRZEWOSKA, Jaime ROJO DE LA VIESCA and András TARI
121 Poste Italiane: a market fee can fulfil the Altmark criteria by Daniel BOESHERTZ and Paola ICARDI
124 Utilisation d’avances remboursables pour aider la R&D: mise en ligne du régime belge en faveur du secteur
aéronautique par Leen DE VREESE et Jean-Charles DJELALIAN
127 Clarification of the procedure for terminating rescue aid where the presentation of a restructuring plan does not
justify the prolongation — comment on the decisions in case of rescue aid to CIT and Ottana by Max LIENEMEYER
130 Two Dutch cases on State aid and soil rehabilitation by Saskia DIRKZWAGER-DE RIJK
135 Information section
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